Amelie Oksenberg Rorty is Professor of the Humanities and the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. Among the numerous other volumes she has edited are "Essays on Descartes' Meditations" (California, 1986), "Perspectives on Self-Deception" (California, 1988), and (with Martha Nussbaum), "Essays on Aristotle'sDe Anima" (1992).